The People of CX Science

Meet The People of the CX Science Subsystem
Meet the current students behind CX Science as well as the past team members and mentors.

Documentation

CX Science Documentation Pages

Overview

During its mission, Citizen Explorer project will

• Provide extensive geographical coverage of ozone, aerosol and UV measurements acquired through a large network of K-12 schools
  
• Provide extensive coverage to study large scale, global phenomena and localized trends such as El Nino and the distribution of clouds
  
• Provide scientists and students with a unique opportunity to explore localized atmospheric trends vs. urban atmospheric variations
  
• Observe sudden stratospheric warming events and episodes of solar activity
  
• Study the effects of these phenomena on the atmosphere and biosphere on a geographically broad scale
  

The Citizen explorer project combines the remote sensing devices on board a satellite and ground observers using hand held instruments to measure long and short term atmospheric events, especially changes in the ozone layers. The satellite has a spectrophotometer capable of observing 280-350 nm wavelengths, and a photometer that measures 365nm visible wavelengths. Ground observations will be done by K-12 students all over the world using aerosol detectors made at the University of Colorado and UV detectors purchased from Sunsor, Inc. The students will be sending observation data through the internet to CU. The data will be stored in the database at CSGC to be used by the CX scientists. By involving K-12 students in the program, the project can have a virtually unlimited number of ground observation points.